"Shales offers rich and compelling insights into the discussion of industrial arts. His deft handling of a wide variety of source material-from visual and material culture to performance culture, from educational philosophy to economic policy, and from craft romanticism to scientific management-distinguishes this book as an important contribution to design history, used in the broadest and best sense. It is a gripping story of shifting alliances and goals."
Edward S. Cooke Jr., Yale University
"Made in Newark is no ordinary museum history. By dismantling boundaries between art, artisanship, and industry, Shales provides a view of a past moment that looks very much like a future to strive for. Setting a huge range of production into a richly described social setting, he shows how truly moving and enlightening interdisciplinary history can be."
Glenn Adamson, Victoria and Albert Museum
"Shales draws on an impressive array of sources to weave ideas about education, citizenship, economics, cultural pluralism, and the role of the museum in a manufacturing town. The result is an intensive and intriguing view of the past."
American Craft
